The Virginia governor’s election is possibly the most watched race in the entire country. Far right attorney general Ken Cuccinelli is running against former DNC chairman Terry McAuliffe. Neither man appears to be particularly popular with Virginia voters. Ken Cuccinelli is running against a backdrop of scandal.
In recent polls, Terry McAuliffe leads Ken Cuccinelli by 5 points. In a low voter turn out those points would not be significant. However, there is an 18 point gender gap in the governor’s race in Virginia. It is possibly the most watched race in the entire country.
That gender gap is a result of the many archaic measures Cuccinelli has either enacted or has tried to enact, from making it harder for women to get divorced, to refusing to sign the Violence Against Women Act, to sponsoring a ‘personhood’ bill that would make some forms of birth control illegal, to bullying the state medical board into reversing its decision to grandfather in existing clinics so they would not have to make major architectural changes in their buildings. Cuccinelli also supports fake clinics lying to ‘patients’ who stumble into the wrong place. He wants to outlaw abortion including the ‘hard cases’ or the exceptions.
Many women simply won’t vote for anyone who wants to suppress their freedom in these critical areas. It’s this kind of zealotry that loses elections. Many Republicans are shying away from this candidate also. Should he get elected, some Republicans predict the death knell for the party in Virginia because of extremism.
While putting on a stiff upper lip in public, some say they will go behind the curtain and vote for the other guy. Cuccinelli is becoming ABC. Anyone But Cuccinelli.
Cuccinelli’s hatred of, and contempt for, women is very much like the Taliban. Protect women’s rights. Vote for his opponent.
One could also consider other factors that could be at play in the gender gap. Unless the prevailing thought is that all women prioritize issues in exactly the same way.
I know women who would never personally consider an abortion who wouldn’t vote for Cuccinelli. It’s about so many issues, starting with Violence Against Women. That has nothing to do with abortion. Neither does him defending the right of Westboro Baptist to be Aholes.
Cuccinelli has so many issues that women disagree with that you don’t have to rank things the same. Pick a subject, then prioritize any way you like. You still come down to the bottom line: Women are not equal in the eyes of Cuccinelli.
He’s against abortion but he voted to allow parents to decline medical treatment for a child with a life threatening condition.
@Moon-howler
My number one concern with the dude is he cares nothing about victims of domestic violence.
Below is from another thread.
Lafayette September 17th, 2013 at 08:03 | #5 Reply | Don’t get me started on his FALSE claim to care about victims of domestic violence. I’ve seen with my own two eyes in the court room he cares NOT one bit about victims. So much, so that he was willing appeal a protective order. This not set well with the victim, her attorney and most importantly the judge. The victim was granted a full three year protective order. He was just a lawyer then.
@Lafayette,
That is the critical information that voters need to know before the election. That is living proof that he simply does not want to stop violence against women. In the case you are referring to, his client was obviously more important than protecting women from violently aggressive threatening men.
Why am I not surprised?
Let’s not forget this. That this was right after a woman in the CoM was killed at the bus stop with kiddos early in the morning that same fall. That woman too, had a protective order. Sadly, it’s really nothing more than a piece of paper.
That was the woman in Point of Woods?
Pieces of paper can be critical–especially if you are trying to prove you are in the right.